Posts Tagged ‘Meg Whitman’

“According to the LA Times, Brown left a voicemail message for Scott Rate, a union official. Brown apparently believed he had hung up the phone, but the connection remained intact and the voice mail machine captured an ensuing conversation between Brown and his aides.

A second male voice can be heard saying, of the deal-making, ‘What about saying she’s a whore?’

Brown replies: ‘Well, I’m going to use that. It proves you’ve cut a secret deal to protect the pensions.'”

Contrary to what Gloria Allred is claiming, the SSA letter dated 4/22/2003 clearly:

1) Makes “no statement about your employee’s immigration status.”

2) Warns Whitman not to fire the housekeeper because of the letter:
The SSA makes it clear that their letter is not a basis for Whitman “to take any adverse action against the employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing, or discriminating against the individual. Any employer that uses the information in this letter to justify taking adverse action against an employee may violate state or federal law and be subject to legal consequences.” It has been reported that Whitman fired the housekeeper in 2009 when they became aware that she was an illegal alien.*

3) Explains to Whitman the maid doesn’t have to show her the SSN card:
On the second page, the SSA explains, “While the employee must furnish the SSN to you, the employee is not required to show you the Social Security card.”

Contrary to what AllRED is claiming, the SSA letter dated 4/22/2003 clearly:1) Makes “no statement about your employee’s immigration status.”2) Warns Whitman not to fire the housekeeper because of the letter:
The SSA makes it clear that their letter is not a basis for Whitman “to take any adverse action against the employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing, or discriminating against the individual. Any employer that uses the information in this letter to justify taking adverse action against an employee may violate state or federal law and be subject to legal consequences.” It has been reported that Whitman fired the housekeeper in 2009 when they became aware that she was an illegal alien.*3) Explains to Whitman the maid doesn’t have to show her the SSN card:
On the second page, the SSA explains, “While the employee must furnish the SSN to you, the employee is not required to show you the Social Security card.”

Patterico did what the Los Angeles Times failed to do – they linked to the actual letter (PDF) and read it to see what it actually said. They found:

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The letter didn’t just fail to come to a conclusion about [the maid’s] legal status…Rather, the letter explicitly says that it makes no statement about her immigration status. That is a stronger statement. Again, the quote is: “This letter makes no statement about your employee’s immigration status. […]

[T]he letter asks only that the Whitmans check the Social Security number in question against the Social Security number she had already given them. […]

Well, she had provided them a fake Social Security card, copies of which the campaign has released. Allahpundit observes:

When you read it carefully, all it says is that there’s some recordkeeping discrepancy related to Diaz’s W-2, which could mean any number of things; her lawyer points out that Diaz acknowledged on page two of the document that she goes by two different names, which Whitman’s husband might have believed was the true cause of the mix-up. . . . Essentially, they’re forced to compare Diaz’s false documents to Diaz’s recitation of the numbers on those false documents, which is moronic.

“I love it! Here we have an illegal INSISTING that she was breaking the law,
and pro-illegal democrats INSISTING that an illegal should have been fired,
and a compassionate boss…GUILTY for not firing her.”peste31415a

“That poor abused dishonest illegal alien…
Meg Whitman only paid her $23 an hour for 15 hours of work a week. Slave wages.”Gateway